Veterans Disability Info Blog

More and more VA hospital employees are blowing the whistle on poor patient care and falsified data, so much so that Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner has requested a 2018 budget increase of $2.4 million to process the flood of complaints, according to a recent article in The Boston Globe.
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A diabetic veteran who checked into the Memphis VA Medical Center seeking an assessment of damage and possible repair of blood vessels in one of his legs went back home with a piece of plastic tubing dangerously lodged in a critical artery. As a result of the malpractice, the veteran ended up...

During the 99th American Legion National Convention in Reno, President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017. This comes as a fulfillment of Trump’s campaign promises to reform the “broken” VA system.
The idea behind the legislation is...

ADS Inc. will pay $16 million to settle False Claims allegations that it fraudulently obtained government contracts through a scheme that included using undeclared affiliates to bid for contracts set aside for small businesses.
The recovery represents one of the largest settlements ever...

Chief of Specialty Care Clinics and Scheduling Operations at the Phoenix VA Health Care System and former Army infantry officer, Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez, has again filed a whistleblower complaint with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) against the Phoenix VA system claiming VA doctors are...

Vietnam veterans are losing patience waiting for VA compensation for Agent Orange associated diseases. And if VA decision-makers are listening to the likes of federal official Jim Samspel, many veterans wonder whether their conditions will ever make the Agent Orange presumptive diseases...

Veterans exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam have put up a long hard fight trying to get the VA disability benefits they deserve.
An estimated 2.4 million U.S. service members were exposed to some level of Agent Orange in Vietnam between 1962 and 1971. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs...

Under the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003, service-disabled veterans who own small businesses get preference for government set-aside contracts.
This service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) program helps veterans compete among other small businesses in the community as a reward...

Our nation vows to take care of its veterans, but VA hospitals continue to delay patient care appointments, in some cases long enough to result in death. Now, Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley says the Department of Veterans Affairs is trying to hide just how bad the wait times are.
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A recent article in the Washington Post, "Thousands of U.S. Troops Suffering from Trauma Were Separated from the Military for Misconduct, Report Finds", has confirmed what we have seen in practice for a number of years now.
Veterans begin to suffer the problems associated with...